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Hunched over, they took off at a flat-footed sprint, circling left around the chapel, careful to stay on the grass and off the gravel path Within a e’s wooden wall became the white stucco of the onion do its curve to where it joined the shoreline path They stopped Down the path, not more than fifty feet aas the boathouse

The door was standing open

Just inside the dim interior they could see movement Kholkov stepped out, followed by his partner They looked around

, each pointing this way and that as they talked Finally Kholkov pointed toward the landing and they headed in that direction Sam and Remi waited until they were halfway down the path then sprinted forward and slipped into the boathouse

Roughly the size of a two-car garage, it was divided into thirds by plank docks suspended by cables froe and white fifteen-foot Hans Barro work boat The barn doors were closed and locked by a horizontal two-by-four cross brace

Sam walked down the center catwalk, lifted the cross brace to its vertical position, and pushed the doors open a couple inches A blast of icy air pushed through the gap

“Check for keys,” Sam whispered

They checked each boat; there were no keys in the ignitions “Guess that explains what Kholkov was doing in here,” Remi said

“Cutting off our exit It’s either that or the staff keeps the keys in another location”

“Either way, so tells me he wouldn’t have relied just on keys to keep us here”

In turn, Saine hatch and checked the systeht In each case a wire had been reine’s starter solenoid

“Not cut,” Re over his shoulder “Removed”

Clearly Kholkov was planning his own eventual exit strategy

“Sh,” Sah to work a screwdriver, he’d been tinkering with things, starting with his ree and his work at DARPA had only honed his do-it-yourself skills

“Keep a lookout,” Sam said Reh the gap between the hinges